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03/23/2011
Monitoring Events in Japan

Provided is a link to Southern Company's website for information on the recent events in Japan and also on Southern Company's Vogtle 3 & 4 projects.

02/14/2011
Obama Administration Seeks Additional $36 Billion For Nuclear Loan Guarantees

The Obama administration is hoping to triple the amount of money it's allowed to use to guarantee loans for nuclear power plants, seeking an additional $36 billion for the guarantees in its fiscal 2012 budget proposal.

01/11/2011
Vogtle Plans to Build New Waste Casks

New facilities can store spent nuclear fuel for more than 100 years.

09/19/2008
Luminant to Submit Application to Expand Nuclear Power Plant

New Study Projects More Than $22 Billion in Economic Benefit

07/28/2008
AmerenUE Submits Combined Construction and Operating License Application for a Second Nuclear Generating Unit

AmerenUE announced the company submitted today a combined Construction and Operating License Application (COLA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a potential new nuclear power plant in Callaway County, Missouri.

06/05/2008
NRC Accepts Remainder of UniStar Combined License Application

Action Sets Stage for Detailed Review of Safety Analysis For Potential New Reactor in Southern Maryland

11/28/2007
Dominion Files for License to Build, Operate Third Reactor at North Anna Power Station

Dominion has passed another milestone in considering a new nuclear unit. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved an early site permit on Nov. 20. The new unit would begin operating in 2015, if Dominion decides to build it.

10/03/2007
Utilities Press for New Nuclear Future

Modern pressures on the environment, growing demand for electricity, financial planning and a regulatory framework are some of the important influences on the nation's potential to build new nuclear powered generation stations. The press is on for a new nuclear future and the Associated Press explored these influences on that future.

10/16/2006
Nuclear Industry Aims to Plug Back Into U.S. Power Grid

Facing steadily growing energy demand, pressure to cut airborne emissions, and armed with a raft of federal incentives, U.S. power generators are reassembling the pieces needed to build commercial reactors.

01/31/2005
The Ancient Archrivals

FORBES.COM — General Electric and Westinghouse are competing to bring the most advanced nuclear power plant designs into reality, in markets aroound the world.

01/31/2005
The Silence of the Nuke Protesters

FORBES.COM — Atomic power is making a comeback, and you hear only muffled squawks from the usual opponents. Could that have something to do with the price of oil? Or maybe global warming?

01/27/2005
Mississippi Extends Hospitality to Nuclear Power

NEW YORK TIMES — Around the country, supporters and opponents of nuclear power are newly energized because the economics for new reactors is no longer so unfavorable.

12/20/2004
Port Gibson, Miss., Board of Aldermen Wants New Nuclear Plant at Grand Gulf

NEWS RELEASE — Port Gibson, Miss. — Entergy received an endorsement and encouragement to build a second nuclear power plant next to Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.

12/06/2004
Claiborne Board of Supervisors Endorses New Nuclear Plant next to Grand Gulf in Mississippi

NEWS RELEASE — Claiborne County, Miss. — Board passes resolution strongly supporting construction of new nuclear plant in Claiborne County adjacent to Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.

11/10/2004
Nuclear-Power Industry Sees Signs of a U.S. Revival —- Utilities Face Opposition Over Safety and Storage; A GE-Westinghouse Contest

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — Two separate consortia of power companies and reactor makers received word that DOE will share cost of obtaining regulatory approval for new nuclear reactors.

10/10/2004
A New Generation of Atom Power

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE — The Chicago Tribune casts its vote for nuclear, one of the strongest endorsements of new nuclear to appear recently.

08/22/2004
Energy Answers, Left Unspoken

NEW YORK TIMES — In a truthful debate, a new nuclear energy program would be presented as central to solving America's energy proglems.

05/03/2004
Unleash the Potential. The benefits of building new nuclear-power plants

BARRON'S — If there will ever be a time when the U.S. should start building more nuclear power plants, that time is now.


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